Word Frequency
badger (ˈbædʒə
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Definitions
noun
- any of various stocky omnivorous musteline mammals of the subfamily Melinae, such as Meles meles (Eurasian badger), occurring in Europe, Asia, and North America: order Carnivora (carnivores). They are typically large burrowing animals, with strong claws and a thick coat striped black and white on the head Compare ferret badger, hog badger
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See honey badger
verb
- tr to pester or harass
Word Origin
C16: variant of badgeard, probably from badge (from the white mark on its forehead) + -ardTranslations for 'badger'
- British English: badger A badger is a wild animal with a white head with two wide black stripes on it.ˈbædʒə NOUN
- Arabic: غُرَيْر
- Brazilian Portuguese: texugo
- Chinese: 獾
- Croatian: jazavac
- Czech: jezevec
- Danish: grævling
- Dutch: dasdier
- European Spanish: tejón
- Finnish: mäyrä
- French: blaireauanimal
- German: Dachs
- Greek: ασβός
- Italian: tasso
- Japanese: アナグマ
- Korean: 오소리
- Norwegian: grevling
- Polish: borsuk
- Portuguese: texugo
- Romanian: bursuc bursuc, bursuci
- Russian: барсук барсучиха
- Spanish: tejón
- Swedish: grävling
- Thai: สัตว์สี่เท้ามีขนสีเทาหัวมีลายเส้นสีขาวตัดกับขนสีเทา
- Turkish: porsuk
- Ukrainian: борсук
- Vietnamese: con lửng
- British English: badger If you badger someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions. VERBShe badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.
- Brazilian Portuguese: acossar
- Chinese: 纠缠纠糾缠纏
- European Spanish: insistir en
- French: harceler
- German: zusetzen
- Italian: assillare
- Japanese: しつこく悩ます
- Korean: 닦달하다
- Portuguese: acossar
- Spanish: insistir en
Example Sentences Including 'badger'
A small, ruddy-cheeked man with rampant eyebrows and a white streak in his hair like a badger 's stripe.A Nasty Dose of Death
He loved to pompously badger his Arsenal players to `respect" the history of the club they represented.Sun, News of the World (1999)
Neither do they have lawyers who would badger the investigating officer and prosecutors for a court date.SA Star (2005)
Prosecutors yesterday alleged they fled the scene when officers approached, leaving a dog trapped underground in a badger sett.Liverpool Daily Post and Echo (2002)
She would play it by ear, but if she needed to badger Janet Taylor a bit, then so be it.AFTERMATH (2001)
So armed with a vast quantity of peanut-butter sandwiches we made our way into the forest where there was an extensive badger sett.How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist
Subsequently, it recommended that Britain postpone the planned badger culling programme for a year.New Scientist (1999)
`But I will not end here, taken like an old badger in a trap.THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2004)
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